At Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Bear 609 traveled 1,000 miles back home after being relocated. On June 2nd, the female black bear was trapped after numerous people complained about her. For years she has been stealing food and items from bystanders, including a backpack from a fisherman. After trapping and tagging her with a…
Mark, a 24-year-old brown bear, is Albania’s last restaurant bear. This bear has spent over 20 years locked in a cage outside a restaurant near Tirana road. Since he was a cub, he has been in a small cell eating the scraps that were given to him. Now, thanks to Four Paws International, he will…
Residents of Ringwood are furious to learn that four bear cubs were killed in the area. For a while, Ringwood, New Jersey residents have been enjoying watching the mama bear and her four cubs. Everyone took pictures when they saw them and got no aggression from the mother. The video provided by one of the…
The DEC has updated their guidelines in helping people reduce human-bear conflict. In NYS it’s recommended that you remove your bird feeders by April first. In any black bear state you need to remove bird feeders in spring to prevent damage to them and avoid attracting bears. The first year that we moved upstate, we…